Sentence examples for quo from inspiring English sources

"The status quo is unacceptable".

A vote today between the status quo and leaving would be an entirely false choice".

The status quo was retained, with 55% of the vote.

They were identified by Cooper as "mature status quo" and "hardpressed unionists".

Some argued that Merkel had been right to stick by her insistence on reform as a quid pro quo for bailouts, but quibbled with the manner she had gone about her business, failing to sell her policies effectively to her partners in Europe.

All of which suggests a need to question the status quo in education, but that is the last thing the Liberal Democrats have been inclined to do.

The three options, Obama said, were to bomb the nuclear facilities and launch a third war in the Middle East, maintain the status quo and hope for the best, or seek "a robust and verifiable deal like this one that peacefully prevents Iran from obtaining a nuclear weapon".

His critics worry that he is just a "prettier Ed Miliband" who might continue with the status quo that lost the party the election.

It excludes anyone who could lend a modicum of diversity to these debates; who might challenge the status quo on the environment, on devolution, on constitutional change, on free-market economics, on gender politics.

Autocratic leaders across the former Soviet Union have been known to dispatch "quid pro quo" observer missions to each others' elections to lend them legitimacy.

Gordon Brown has added his heavyweight credentials to the 'No' campaign, warning that a Scotland dominated by the SNP will not necessarily be more progressive than the status quo.